Stealing the Corner Office: The Winning Career Strategies They'll Never Teach You in Business School

Stealing the Corner Office is mandatory listening for smart, hardworking managers who always wonder why their seemingly incompetent superiors are so successful. It is a unique collection of controversial but highly effective tactics for middle managers and aspiring executives who want to learn the real secrets for moving up the corporate ladder. Unlike virtually all other business books, Stealing the Corner Office explores the unconventional tactics people less competent than you use to get ahead and stay ahead.

HBR Guide to Office Politics

Every organization has its share of political drama: Personalities clash. Agendas compete. Turf wars erupt. But you need to work productively with your colleagues - even difficult ones - for the good of your organization and your career. How can you do that without compromising your personal values? By acknowledging that power dynamics and unwritten rules exist - and navigating them constructively.

Conversation Tactics, Book 3 focuses on the subtle and nuanced tactics that will allow you to command any social situation. I'll shine a light onto the secrets of those that can own a room, always have a witty reply, and are never caught without just the right thing to say. I want this book to arm you with definitive tactics, maneuvers, and replies to whatever comes your way in a conversation.

Calm, Cool, Collected: How to Demolish Stress, Master Anxiety, and Live Your Life

We all have our fair share of problems, anxieties, and insecurities. This is inevitable. How we deal with these things directly dictates how happy, productive, and confident we are. Far too many of us remain victims of the ups and downs of everyday life.... But YOU don't have to.

99 Bad Boy Traits That Instantly Attract Women

In 99 Bad Boy Traits That Instantly Attract Women, you'll learn how to: become more attractive by becoming authentic and not a guy who pretends just to get attention and approval; carry yourself in a confident and charming manner that immediately catches women's attention; talk to women in a way that communicates you're experienced, you "get it", and she won't be disappointed; and much more!

Conversation Casanova: How to Effortlessly Start Conversations and Flirt Like a Pro

Do you freeze up when you see an attractive girl? Do you run out of things to say? Do you struggle to attract women through conversation? It doesn't have to be this way. What if you could effortlessly strike up a conversation with any woman, at any time, in any environment? What if you knew exactly how to keep the conversation going (so you never ran out of things to say)? What if you could command women's attention and instantly connect with them? What if you could turn any conversation from boring to sexual?

Getting Ahead: Three Steps to Take Your Career to the Next Level

In Getting Ahead, one of the top 50 executive coaches in the United States, Joel Garfinkle reveals his signature model for mastering three skills to take your career to the next level: Perception, Visibility, and Influence.The PVI-model of professional advancement will teach you to: (1) Actively promote yourself as an asset and valuable person inside the organization, (2) Increase your visibility to gain others’ recognition and appreciation for your efforts and (3) Become a person of influence who makes key decisions inside the organization.

The Unwritten Rules: The Six Skills You Need to Get Promoted to the Executive Level

As predictable career paths have become extinct in most organizations, managers aspiring to the C-level job are left to their own devices to determine how to advance their careers. Even in companies committed to talent development, guidance to aspiring executives is often vague and contradictory. This happens, executive coach John Beeson argues, because executive promotions are made based on the decision makers' intuitive sense of whether or not a manager can succeed at higher levels within the organization. Beeson decodes these leadership criteria that companies use to make decisions about who gets promoted.

Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts - Becoming the Person You Want to Be

In business, the right behaviors matter. But getting it right is tricky. Even when we acknowledge the need to change what we do and how we do it, life has a habit of getting in the way, upsetting even the best-laid plans. And just how do we manage those situations that can provoke even the most rational among us into behaving in ways we would rather forget?

The Natural: How to Effortlessly Attract the Women You Want

Whether you're looking to play the field or meet that one special girl, world-renowned pickup artist Richard La Ruina has got you covered. In The Natural, he reveals his blueprint for attracting and keeping the kinds of women most men only dream of. It doesn't matter what you look like or how much you make; when you use these methods, it's a whole new game - and you have the unfair advantage.

Personal Success: Alpha Habits: The Daily Habits, Principles, and Rituals to Take You from Loser to Legend

Want control over your life but don't know how to get it? Right now you probably know that something in your life needs to change. The problem is there is so much noise out there, you don't know where to start. The starting point is in the audio of this book. The starting point is in mastering the alpha habits!

The Confidence Gap: A Guide to Overcoming Fear and Self-Doubt

Russ Harris offers a surprising solution to low self-confidence, shyness, and insecurity: Rather than trying to "get over" our fears, he says, the secret is to form a new and wiser relationship with them. Paradoxically, it's only when we stop struggling against our fearfulness that we begin to find lasting freedom from it.

Conversation Tactics: Strategies to Charm, Befriend, and Defend

Do you want to become more charming and likable - instantly? Or just make sure you can defend yourself verbally, and not be a doormat? Do you lose arguments, find yourself speechless, or get taken advantage of by others? Or do you just want to build meaningful connections and friendships quickly? Sounds like you need to learn as many conversation tactics as possible! In this book you'll learn 18 powerful techniques that can be used for everything under the sun.

How to Deal with Difficult People: Smart Tactics for Overcoming the Problem People in Your Life

Don't let problem people get to you! Whether it’s a manager who keeps moving the goal posts, an uncooperative colleague, negative friend, or critical family member, some people are just plain hard to get along with. Often, your immediate response is to shrink or sulk, become defensive or attack. But there are smarter moves to make when dealing with difficult people. This book explains how to cope with a range of situations with difficult people and to focus on what you can change.

Thinking Like an Economist: A Guide to Rational Decision Making

Economic forces are everywhere around you. But that doesn't mean you need to passively accept whatever outcome those forces might press upon you. Instead, with these 12 fast-moving and crystal clear lectures, you can learn how to use a small handful of basic nuts-and-bolts principles to turn those same forces to your own advantage.

The Science of Likability: Charm, Wit, Humor, and the 16 Studies That Show You How to Master Them

Are you interested in 100 percent scientific and proven ways to make friends quickly, negotiate anything you want, turn enemies into friends, gain trust, and just be flat-out likable? How about step-by-step, methodical, literally foolproof approaches to make people want you around more? In The Science of Likability, that's exactly what you'll get. I've taken 16 of the most influential, famous, and effective psychological studies and broken them down to see exactly how you can use their findings to your advantage.

The Likeability Factor: How to Boost Your L-Factor and Achieve Your Life's Dreams

The more you are liked, or the higher your likeability factor, the happier your life will be. This audiobook will show you how to raise that likeability factor by teaching you how to boost four critical elements of your personality.

Publisher's Summary

Dealing with office politics, conflict and difficult people at work without compromising your values and integrity, can be tricky. With case studies and examples, Savvy will help you understand colleagues' behaviour and power dynamics at work, and learn how to negotiate them successfully. Practical and insightful, Savvy will enable you to master the necessary skills to deal with difficult situations. It includes step-by-step advice on how to build a network, develop the right mind-set, handle conflict, manage your boss, influence others and deal with a bully.

Savvy is the essential office survival guide that will help you to boost your career and ensure your professional success. Jane Clarke is a director at business psychology consultancy Nicholson McBride. She has worked in consulting for over 20 years and her clients include London Business School, UBS, J Walter Thompson and Sainsbury's.

She has written articles for the Financial Times and the Guardian, appeared on BBC Business Breakfast and written a weekly column on office politics for the Independent. Jane is also the author of Office Politics, Wired Working, and Resilience.

What the Critics Say

"Full of insights and advice, Jane Clarke's highly readable guide to the fast-changing world of work is an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to get ahead and climb the corporate ladder." (Rhymer Rigby, author of The Careerist and 28 Business Thinkers Who Changed the World)

"Clarke has produced an easy-to-read manual of helpful ways to understand and manoeuvre in office politics... A book as helpful for new employees as for experienced managers and entrepreneurs, Savvy is a clear and helpful guide for those who seek to work with others toward the common good." (ForeWord Reviews)

I have to admit it took about 4 chapters before I began to understand what the book was talking about, however, the rest of the book was extremely valuable. The idea of being able to identify what personality types that surround and how to approach them is extremely helpful in human relations.<br/><br/>My biggest challenge in putting some of these theories in practice, is that different people seem to be different character traits at different times, regardless this book gives valuable advice on how to deal with these traits once you have spotted them.